Install lastest software and builds:

Edit: Since I wrote this guide, someone else posted a better guide for a better way to root your phone. I actually recommend you to follow this guide instead. So you may jump down to the “Nandroid backup” section below.

1) Well written guide how to root your phone and install hard spl and recovery image. Note that you only need to follow the guide until “what to do now when you have root”

2) Install latest recovery image. The link has installation instructions. Update: The latest recovery image, cyanogen 1.3, has automatic nandroid restore, making it very easy for complete restore directly from the phone. No need to restore from the spl any longer.

3) Install latest radio image. Download the image from this page. It can be upgraded by normal procedure. Rename the file to update.zip, place it in the root of your sd card, boot into recovery home+power, and choose to apply update.zip.

4) Install latest spl. Download the image from this page and install in same way is the radio image. Its very important to install the radio before this new spl.

5) Install the ROM you like. Basic instruction is that you download a rom and install in the same wat as radio and spl. However, be sure to read the instructions form the person who released the ROM. A very good page overviewing the roms is the Android ROM build database. As a first ROM I recommend to use any of JF’s roms which is a rooted version of the officially released roms, for latest US version JF 1.51, can be downloaded from his blog.

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